130th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2016)

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Sunday, January 10, 2016

7:30 AM-9:00 AM


Farewell Coffee Reception

8:00 AM-1:00 PM


ASCH Information Table
American Society of Church History

8:00 AM-2:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office open

Hilton Info Desk

Nursing Mothers’ Room open

8:30 AM-10:30 AM


Media Training Workshop for Historians
AHA Session 224

AHA Book Club #1: Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation by William Sewell
AHA Session 225

Fifty Years since Lester Maddox: Georgia’s Massive Resistance to the New Right
AHA Session 226

Migrating Repertoires of Diplomacy: Strategies of British Negotiation with Indigenous Peoples in the British Empire, 1800–50
AHA Session 227

Biopolitics and the Migration of Ideas in Early Modern Globalization
AHA Session 228

Civil Wars, National Imaginings, and the State in Latin America: A Comparative Perspective
AHA Session 229

Tuning Sequential Methods Courses for History Majors
AHA Session 230

International Human Rights Groups in the Communist Bloc
AHA Session 231

Staging Modern Society: Theaters in the United States, Brazil, and Egypt at the Turn of the 20th Century
AHA Session 232

The President, Persuasion, and the Press in the 20th Century
AHA Session 233

Global Migrations, Socio-Religious Networks, and State Formations from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
AHA Session 234

Empire and Labor in the Pacific
AHA Session 235

Women and Diplomatic Practice in Early Modernity
AHA Session 236

Race, Nation, Democracy, and State in and after the Russian Empire
AHA Session 238

A Useful Model: How Public and Academic Historians and K–12 Teachers Can Collaborate on Teaching Materials
AHA Session 239

The Whole World Is Mobilizing: Global Dimensions of Peace and Antiwar Activism around the Vietnam War
AHA Session 240

Rationales of Violence in the American Empire, from the Early Republic to the Late Cold War
AHA Session 241

Families and Communities in the Early Modern Atlantic Empires
AHA Session 242

The Global Migration of Economic Expertise and the Origins of International Development
AHA Session 243

“Struggle” and “Resistance” in African American Women’s History
AHA Session 244

New Directions in Disability and Gender Scholarship: Science, Medicine, and the Construction of Healthy Citizens in the Long 20th Century
AHA Session 245

Public Housing History in the HOPE VI Era
AHA Session 246

Finding Freedom: New Perspectives on Movement, Mobility, and Self-Emancipation from Slavery in the Early Republic
AHA Session 247

Decentering the Decolonization Debate
AHA Session 248

Digital History and Digital Preservation Projects: Challenges and Opportunities
AHA Session 249

Reassessing China’s Cultural Revolution: 50 Years Later
AHA Session 250

Interpreting Reconstruction in the National Parks
AHA Session 251

Queer Migrations, Part 6: Sexuality, Migration, and Urban Space across the Modern World
AHA Session 252

Woman, Holiness, and Faith in Medieval Europe
American Catholic Historical Association 17

Transatlantic Catholicism in the 19th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 18

Consequences of Vatican II
American Catholic Historical Association 19

Northern Protestants, Southern Catholics, and Religious Superiors: Challenges in 19th-Century America
American Catholic Historical Association 20

Reframing Religious Reform through Childhood: From 16th-Century England to 19th-Century America
American Society of Church History 36

What's in a Name? Debating Keywords in the Study of American Protestantism
American Society of Church History 37

Reform, Mission, and Governance in Colonial Spanish America
American Society of Church History 38

Mysticism in Early Modern Protestantism
American Society of Church History 39

Tourism and Sport in the 20th Century
Conference on Latin American History 56

Italy’s Military Performance in World War II
Society for Italian Historical Studies 9

8:30 AM-11:30 AM


AHA Information Desk at the Marriott

8:30 AM-12:00 PM


AHA Council meeting (invitation only)

8:30 AM-12:30 PM


Tour 10: Self-Guided Tour of Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Park

9:00 AM-12:00 PM


Exhibit Hall open

Internet Center open

Job Center open

Quiet Room open

Quiet Room open

11:00 AM-1:00 PM


Historians in the Public Sphere: Why and How We Should Write Op-Eds and Engage the Media
AHA Session 253

AHA Book Club #2: College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, by Andrew Delbanco
AHA Session 254

Jimmy Carter’s 1976 Presidential Campaign 40 Years Later
AHA Session 255

Imperial Fantasies and Local Realities: Migrants within and beyond the British and German Empires
AHA Session 256

Federal Offense: A Complex History of Female, Native American, and African American Civil Servants
AHA Session 257

The Great War, Transnational Experience, and International Migration: Africa, Europe, and North America
AHA Session 258

Engendering Landscapes, Creating Citizens: Colonization and Resettlement in the Mid-20th-Century Tropical World: Examples from Latin America and Africa
AHA Session 259

American? Citizenship and Identity in the 20th-Century United States
AHA Session 260

Remapping Cuban Political Histories: Personal Connections and Global Implications
AHA Session 261

The Green Revolution in World History
AHA Session 262

Historical Thinking in Teacher Preparation: Preparing to Teach the Unnatural Act
AHA Session 263

Shift Ctrl: Computing and New Media beyond the US and Europe
AHA Session 264

New Approaches to Globalizing the History of American Capitalism
AHA Session 265

When the Personal Goes Global: Private Musings, Political Commentary, and the Forging of 20th-Century Transnational Identities
AHA Session 266

Imperial Intersections: Divided Sovereignties, Migratory Concepts, and the Public Sphere in Egypt, 1866–1925
AHA Session 267

Irregular Armed Conflict and the Development of the Laws of War, 1863–1977
AHA Session 268

Paradise Is a Faraway Land: Racial Representation, Hierarchy, and Conflicts in 20th-Century Brazil
AHA Session 269

Citizenship, Solidarity, and Struggle: Histories of Harlem’s Migrant Neighbors in the Interwar Period
AHA Session 270

Fellow-Feeling in an Imperial Age
AHA Session 271

Between the Family and the Global: Managing Population Migration to Western Europe in an Age of Globalization, 1945–90
AHA Session 272

New Findings in North American Drug History: Mexico, the United States, and the Wider World, 1890–1980
AHA Session 273

Marking Text for Digital History: From Microhistory to Big Data with the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
AHA Session 274

Finding Feminisms: New Perspectives of Women’s Movements in the American South
AHA Session 275

Bio-Racialized Bodies: Racism, Illness, and Medical Practice
AHA Session 276

Détente and Its Discontents: The New Right Takes on Nixingerism and Grapples with Its Legacy
AHA Session 277

Talking Terms: Immigration and Settler Colonialism in US History
AHA Session 278

Social, Cultural, and Economic Histories of Ships Connected to the Transatlantic Slave Trade
AHA Session 279

Roundtable: The Centennial of the US National Park Service
AHA Session 280

Queer Migrations, Part 7: Traversing Boundaries: Sexual Citizenship, Trans/National Identities, and Political Movements
AHA Session 281

The Politics of Anticatholicism in the 20th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 21

Do We Live in a Secular Age?  Reports on Religion from the Heartlands of Secularity
American Society of Church History 40

Faith and Humanitarian Development: Defining Need, Seeking Change
American Society of Church History 41

Earthly Roots, Spiritual Destinies: Antebellum American Protestant Reconsiderations
American Society of Church History 42

Race, Idolatry, Iconoclasm: New Approaches to Theological Challenges from the East Roman Empire to Tang China
American Society of Church History 43

Cleaning up the Neighborhood: State Formation and the Ambiguous Politics of Anticommunism in Cold War Mexico
Conference on Latin American History 61

11:00 AM-1:30 PM


Tour 11: Finding Inspiration Inside: The National Center for Civil and Human Rights

2:00 PM-4:00 PM


NHC Board of Trustees Meeting
National History Center of the American Historical Association